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Originally posted by Bro
Omg I remember the day TEOM was released and I too bought a copy that day. I couldn't wait to get home to listen so I opened it inside the train and popped it in in my CD player. The first verse of Mine Again gave me life on the first listen and I was slayed when it ended with that high note  |
I remember Say Somethin' leaking in December 2004 and it was being reported by several outlets as the first single. I listened and thought "oh....."
Then a few weeks later I heard a song on B96 and I didn't know it but it was unmistakably Mariah's voice. And THAT time it was like "...oh! what is THIS?" And that song was It's Like That.
You could feel an electricity in the air in those opening months of 2005. Mariah was looking relaxed, confident, the single sounded focused and I remember a lot of very anticipatory press. You just
knew that this album was going to be different. That it was going to be
right.
That first week, Hits Daily Double was expecting opening sales of 250k, and all throughout the week the predictions went higher and higher
She spent basically the entire Summer of 2005 in the Top 5 of the album chart. I remember thinking, before the era began, that if she ended up between 2-3 million copies it would be considered a good commercial comeback. And with the early momentum, We Belong Together might even beat It's Like That and peak in the top ten!
